07 September 2019
Chandrayaan-2 lander fails to touchdown successfully
...programme that had come so near to putting a probe on the Moon. A soft landing on another planetary body would have made India... - that is the Chandrayaan 2 orbiter - is orbiting the moon successfully," an official of ISRO told news agency IANS. The ...
17 December 2020
Chang'e 5 probe returns to Earth with Moon rocks
... Satellite Launch Center soon were soon on hand to retrieve the capsule. During Chang'e 5's two days on the Moon, it collected two kilograms (4.5 pounds) of material in a volcanic area called Mons Ruemker in the Oceanus Procellarum – a region that...
08 April 2019
Afterglow: Reflections on the Golden Age of Moon Explorers
...’ indicates the potential interest in producing a retrospective of what its subtitle calls “the Golden Age of Moon Explorers”. It has also stolen a march on potential competition by offering something a bit different in terms of presentation. Rather...
October 2017
Exploring Jupiter’s icy moons
... of how our solar system works. The JUpiter ICy moons Explorer (‘JUICE’) mission addresses two of the overarching themes of...of the icy crust over recently active regions. Callisto will be explored as a witness of the early solar system, trying also to...
March 2018
Plumes on Europa - tasting an extra-terrestrial ocean
... able to exploit this opportunity is the Jupiter Icy moon Explorer (JUICE), comissioned by the European Space Agency (ESA)....conductive layer - made from a salty ocean - under the moon’s icy surface. Finally, measurements of the gravity field also ...
November 2016
Moon or Mars - NASA’s next logical step?
... Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UN COPOUS), believes there would be great interest if NASA were to invite partners to join a Moon exploration programme. “I even think China would be open to this. People need inspiration and I believe people still see...
